Waterbury evening Democrat., 1887-12-21
SARCASM IN THE SENATE.
EoMUNDS AND CALL INDULGE IN AN
 INTELLECTUAL BATTLE.


 ' srm mont's Chieftain Recognizes the Abil-
 ity and Zeal of the Stateman from the
 Land of Al1igatcrs-The Unspeakable
 Mormon the Subject of Discussion.
 WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.-Senator Call, who attempted to have printed at length in The Record Monday q Ifiemorial from the citi- zens cf Utah relative to the admission of that territory state, returned to the at tack yesterday, and was successful He and Senator Edmunds had a war of words and eloquence which entertained the senate for an hour. MT. Edmunds insisted on his ob- jections, and Mir. Call thereupon carried out his threat of Monday and read the memorial, and secured the publication.
 MT. E ;nunds said Le certainly had not questioned the sincerity of the senator from Florida, for that senator had stood behind his polygamist hierarchy every time that it Lad any interest to advance or any whole some legislation to resist. He had done so with great deal of ability and considerable zeal. He could give the senator the praise of being absolutely sincere in standing by that body of persons through thick and through thin, come good, come ill, and he ex- pected that the senator would continue to do SO; and if, in process of time, Utah should become state, and the United States constitution should be changed so that one person might be a senator from two states, he had no doubt that the senator from Florida would be the first senator whom the Mormon hierarchy would select. He could produce and ask to have printed in The Record other statements showing the utter hypocrisy and gammon of the proposition, and that it was a mere trick to get out from under the hands of congress and from under the laws of the union.
 MT. Call said that the senator from Yer mont was not more sincere than correct in his statement that Mr. Call had stood behind the Mormon hierarchy. He had stood be- hind human rights when the senator, with exquisite cruelty, sought to punish innocent women and children in Utah by legislation which the speaker regarded as unconsSitu' tional, unfeeling and inhuman. The senator has never heard him ad vocate corrupt judi cial tribunals, or packed juries, or prostitu. tion of the courts of justice. He understood by the statements of reliable citizens-Re- publicans and Democrats-that not more than per cent of the population of Utah favored poiygamy, and that the young peo- pie of the territory were unanimously op- posed to it, and submitted conscientiously to the legislation of congress The objections of the senator from Vermont were vain and idle, and unworthy of that senator. They were not reasonable as a matter of logic, and were not true as matter of fact.
 MT. Stewart was opposed to printing the memorial in The Record, as it might raise false hopes in Utah as being an expression of opinion that its admission as a state was pos sible at present. She was governed by a close corporation, hierarchy. He did not believe there was such a thing as freedom in Utah. The various modes which the Nor mons had of ridding themselves of Ge tiles were cruel, unheard of, unreasonable. He did not want to see Utah admitted with the weak promise that she would abolish Polyg- amy, without any evidence that she would abolish the organization which governed Mormons with a rod of iron, and excluded other citizens living among them.
 MT. Paddock denied that the memorial repre- ented the wishes of 20O, 900 people. The whole population of Utah was only 200 GOO, of which about 140, 900 were Nor mons. As to the statement that not more than 3 per cent. of the Mormons were po- lygamlsts, he stated that they were all po- lyganlists, so far as an indorsement of the doctrine was concerned, aud belief that it was divine revelation.
 Mir. Call said that the memorial hayipo been read by him it would necessarily be
 
 printed He withdrew his resolution.
 While being attacked by Mir. Call MT. Edmunds sat in his seat with his head bowed on his breast, and the peculiar half smile, half sheer, so usual to his counte- nance In his remarks in opposition to MT. Calls resolution he stated that he had be- came very distrustful of memorials that came in with a request to be printed, and to the occurrence of a few wears ago, when prayer had been printed in The Record that was very insulting to the senate. In saying this Mir. Edmunds referred to a paper presented by Senator Blair and which Senator Hawley publicly accused MT. Blair of surreptitiously getting into The Record.
 A similar case occurred about five years ago. Senator Sherman presented, by re- quest, 0 memorial in reference to the legis- lation regarding the Des Moiaes river lands. a subject that is yet before congress. The was printed in the Record. and when published was found to contain a most bitter attack on Senator David Davis and his course with regard to the bill. Senator Sherman explained to the senate that he knew nothing of what the memorial con- tained, apologized for presenting it, and it was expurged from the files of the senate. These little things, Mir. Edmunds says, cause him to look with suspicion upon memorials
 Opposed to the Chinese.
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